Dear Museum, I want to live in you.

My goal is to make art out of alternative living situations. Maybe this sounds like an idealistic goal but I'm all about idealistic goals. I want to be known as the guy that lives in weird places. I want to inspire people to believe in their own self sufficiently. The flip side to this is that no one lives in a box, we're all interconnected.

I like to be on display. I'm a nomad. I love new environments because it invigorates me to have new spaces to explore.

I'm interested in everything I see on the museum's website. The green house, the electric car, the power of waves and the museum in 1893 all look very interesting to me and I could talk at length about any one of those subjects. I have a layman's understanding of science and my room for learning will be spacious.

They say the best way to learn is to teach, right?

Interaction with the public, speaking with museum-going crowds sound really appealing to me. It's right up my ally to do something like this. I love to learn and then share what I've learned. I've always been a very good tour guide and I love having people come to visit me for that reason.

I've been making art my whole life. I'm 37 right now and when I was 23 I decided officially that I would pursue art no matter what. Over the years I've practiced drawing and painting, photography and video. But the area I've learned most in is the social dealings I've been a part of.

I ran a gallery for a few years and was in constant negotiations with people that were not monetarily based but it always involved seeing what people wanted. I've learned to be attuned to giving them what they want and this excites me. To be able to please people with the gifts I'm sharing has been a blessing. I even give my paintings away.

With a few other artists, I started an art show in Reno held in motel rooms. The term herding cats always applies to curating and promoting art show because artists all want to go their own way and test boundaries. This is my background and eventually I wanted to bring these social insights into my work.

Eventually I found that social media and the online world is all about connections. That is now my art and I call myself a facebookist. In that, I blog and photograph and edit videos of myself interacting with others. It's all done on location and in a nomadic way.

I'm very interested in the exposure these accommodations will bring me and I'd like to share my talents at the service of the museum. We're all responsible to step up and be noticed because what we have and know must be passed down to the next generation.

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